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Behrouz Boochani and the Biopolitics of the Camp

The New Primo Levi? 

February 16, 2019 • by
 Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains, a literary sensation upon its publication in Australia in August 2018, and soon to be released in the United States, deserves a place alongside classics of the prison writing genre. [1] At the same time, it contains important lessons for everyone thinking about power in the ...
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The Power of Platforms

How biopolitical companies threaten democracy

January 25, 2019 • by
The 2010s will likely be remembered as the decade of the rise of platforms. Google, Amazon, Facebook, Airbnb, Uber -- all of these companies have become more than just billion-dollar businesses. Over the last ten years they have started to play an essential role in the everyday life of most ...
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